In this paper we discuss the development and use of low-rank approximate nonnega-tive matrix factorization (NMF) algorithms for feature extraction and identification in the fields of text mining and spectral data analysis. The evolution and convergence properties of hybrid methods based on both sparsity and smoothness constraints for the resulting… (More)

In this study, we apply a non-negative matrix factoriza-tion approach for the extraction and detection of concepts or topics from electronic mail messages. For the publicly released Enron electronic mail collection, we encode sparse term-by-message matrices and use a low rank non-negative matrix factorization algorithm to preserve natural data… (More)